HMS Reindeer (1883)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Reindeer.

HMS Racer, sister ship to HMS Reindeer
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Reindeer
Builder	Devonport Dockyard
Cost	Hull: £34,834, Machinery: £12,787[1]
Laid down	15 January 1883[1]
Launched	14 November 1883
Fate	Lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association in 1917 and renamed Reindeer I Sold on 12 July 1924
General characteristics
Displacement	970 tons
Length	167 ft (51 m)
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)[1]
Installed power	850 ihp (630 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine Single screw[1]
Sail plan	Barque-rigged
Speed	11+1⁄2 knots (21.3 km/h)
Range	Approximately 2,100 nmi (3,900 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement	126
Armament	8 × 5-inch 38cwt breech-loading guns 1 × light gun 8 × machine guns[1]

HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns.[2]

Construction

Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby,[1] the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, her hull was of composite construction; that is, iron keel, frames, stem and stern posts with wooden planking. She was fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound expansion steam engine driving a single screw, produced by Hawthorn Leslie. She was rigged with three masts, with square rig on the fore- and main-masts, making her a barque-rigged vessel. Her keel was laid at Devonport Royal Dockyard on 15 January 1883 and she was launched on 14 November 1883. Her entire class were re-classified in November 1884 as sloops before they entered service.

Career

She was converted to a boom defence vessel in 1904. During World War I, she collided with the Royal Navy stores carrier HMS Immingham in the Mediterranean Sea on 6 June 1915, sinking Immingham.[3] She was lent to the Liverpool Salvage Association as a salvage vessel in 1917. Re-engined in 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company with a 2,100 horsepower (1,566 kW) engine,[4] she was renamed Reindeer I and sold to the Halifax Shipyard Ltd as a salvage ship on 12 July 1924.[1] She was abandoned at sea on 12 March 1932. Her 30 crew were rescued by the ocean liner Montcalm.[5][6]

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

1. Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
2. "Cruisers at battleships-cruisers website". Retrieved 11 August 2008.
3. "BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer)". Naval History. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
4. Moore, John E, ed. (1990). Janes fighting ships of World War I. Studio Editions. p. 91. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
5. "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 46081. London. 14 March 1932. col G, p. 24.
6. "A North Atlantic rescue". The Times. No. 46082. London. 15 March 1932. col C, p. 13.